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FedEx Express doubles and diversifies all-electric fleet with 24 new units; adding more than 4,000 new, fuel-efficient vehicles in total

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FedEx Express is bringing new all-electric delivery vehicles to New York City, Chicago and Memphis, and diversifying the existing Los Angeles fleet. In Memphis, FedEx Express is retrofitting existing vehicles to make them all-electrics, saving resources through using existing vehicle bodies. and Jonesboro, Ark.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Support mobility technologies such as connected and automated vehicles, as well as innovations in transit. e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. AOI 10: Enabling Vehicle and Infrastructure Connectivity.

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DOE awards $98M in tax credits to automakers and suppliers for clean technology manufacturing

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General Motors Company was selected for a 48C tax credit of more than $20 million in connection with its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant where the company manufactures Extended Range Electric Vehicles—Chevrolet Volts and the Cadillac ELR electric luxury coupe—along with internal combustion cars. 30 million.

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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These electrode assemblies are then sandwiched together with conventional separators and positive electrodes to make the battery, which is filled with an acid electrolyte, sealed and connected in series to the other cells. PbC battery. Click to enlarge. Axion is working with the railroad on its $8B Crescent Corridor project.

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